Masters champion Danny Willett passed up a round of media appearances that would have made him a household name so that he could fly home to England to be with his wife and newborn baby, we’re told.

The winner of the annual golf tournament traditionally jets straight from Augusta National Golf Club to New York to do appearances on NBC’s “Today” show and CBS’s “The Late Show,” and pose in a photo-op at the top of the Empire State Building.

“We reached out to see if Danny was going to be able to do it,” a media insider told us, “but we were told he was flying straight home to the UK because he’s just had a baby.” His wife Nicole gave birth to son Zachariah on March 30.